Something must had happened with my fresh install, without dual-booting XP: a series of problems appeared and, after setting my system the way I like, I'm not inclined to redo all the work again to see if everything goes fine again (my net is a trash). So, I'm trying to solve all the problems. Besides, this is good 'cause it forces me to learn more.

Now I have a problem with wvdial: before and after the fresh install it was working nice. Suddenly, last Monday, when I tried to connect to my GSM ISP, it started and began to try to connect - nothing wrong until then. So I noticed it was longing too much to connect: I looked the log while it was dialing and noticed it was doing it waaayyyyyy too slow. Before it would do like this:

Between "Waiting carrier" and "NO CARRIER! Trying again..." it longs like 10 secs now, when it used to long only 1 sec or less. Too slow, so it can't get the signal ever. When it was normal, it used to repeat the dial like 10 times in 7 secs before the connection was succesful. Now, the same 10 tries longs 2 minutes or more, never catching the carrier signal.

confused?!?

Someone has an idea of what's happening? I tried to uninstall completelly wvdial and gnome-ppp to see if it would make a difference: nothing here. I tried to use wvdial alone too: it made it like gnome-ppp did.